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How do you know if one of your miners was the one to find a block?
Several ways:
For 1, my monitoring software tells me as soon as it happens
2, check your miner GUI - most will tell you if you found one
3, KanoPool lets every registered user know who found it. Just check the pool stats and the pool keeps full records of everything from day-1 of it starting.
4. The Rem bot in discord reports as soon as my home bitcoin node sees a block on the blockchain with the word KanoPool in the coinbase.
Then I'll report in discord, some time after that, the console line that shows who found it.
Also, the web site will immediately report
any shares that hash to a block level even if the network rejects them for any reason e.g. stale, orphaned
If they are stale or orphaned I'll do an analysis of the cause and report the findings in full detail.
We've never lost any blocks due to pool software failure or pool management (negligence)